Apple yes, open source no ?? You may wish to look at OS X's foundation Darwin a bit closer. Or where Safari branches from.

We have three active OS X boxen, and one Linux box in the house. All happily surfing the web, reading email, and performing day to day tasks. I am the most user savvy, but by no means technical. My wife and 13 year old use the Linux box too, for things as varied as reading MS formats to getting a correct rendering of Hebrew, to just cruising around the OS and playing with programming.

Open Source software is the cornestone of a connected world, because proprietary formats are carry too high a social cost in terms of money, exclusivity, security, privacy, and friction. It is not by chance that governments are prohibiting MS formats.

NO, to MS tax, windows malware, and monopolistic business practices. MS is an extremely rich, but dying company. It is about time, and I am glad to be rid of them. That does not mean MS will disappear; only that they, like Apple, will have to learn to compete as a value added company on top of open source. And that is as good as gone, compared to the MS that exists now.

R2-E2, 2G Prius.
Highway/City/Husband/Wife MPG: 56.5, as of 12/2005, 26K miles

Jac Nasser, Ford President: "We are planning to launch a hybrid version of
this car [P2000] within this year [1998]. We will also make FCEV available in
2004."